Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2026) and Colorsoft (2026) Review: Best for Accessories

The erstwhile Signature Editions of some the Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft already offered auto-adjustment of their beforehand lights, wireless charging, and much storage, and that remains existent with the 2026 version. But the 2026 Signature Editions besides battalion a new, aluminum-backed framework that gives them a much premium consciousness and shiny look, positive pogo pins connected the backmost to brace them with caller Kindle accessories. That aluminum signifier makes it heavier, weighing 8.1 ounces alternatively of 7.2 ounces. You tin consciousness the difference, but the taller signifier origin makes the value consciousness amended distributed than connected the shorter (though lighter) Kindle Aluminum.

Colorful finishes are fundamentally locked into the Signature Editions lone present with these caller models, astatine slightest if you privation 1 of the 7-inch ones. While the base, 6-inch integrative Kindle has a purple colour option, the basal Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft volition lone travel successful black. The Signature Editions are wherever you'll find the amusive colors: I tested the Paperwhite Signature Edition’s Seaglass Green color, portion the Colorsoft Signature has a deep-purple Fig option. I americium disappointed it's lone 1 colour per model, fixed however costly these are and the information that the Aluminum version has 2 colors.

But the biggest entreaty to maine for choosing a Signature Edition isn't the colour but the compatibility with a caller accessory made by Amazon for these caller Kindles: the Kindle Page Turn Cover ($80).

Amazon utilized to marque an e-reader with page-turn buttons, the Kindle Oasis, but hasn’t for years. It’s a diagnostic we’ve been waiting to spot travel back, and alternatively of baking it into 1 of its e-readers, Amazon has chosen to marque it an add-on. Amazon says it's a vocal number of astir 5 percent of Kindle users who privation page-turn buttons, and I deliberation this is simply a astute determination to marque it an enactment for those who privation it without risking a perchance unpopular device.

The screen works well, easy popping onto my Paperwhite Signature Edition and rapidly moving to crook the pages. You tin usage it to determination up and down connected pages, too, but the acquisition feels backward—the higher-up guardant fastener volition determination you down a page, erstwhile visually you expect it to determination you upward. It's a lightweight, sleek screen otherwise, and feels identical to the caller slim covers Amazon has retired for its aluminum models. It’s sleek and discreet, and the buttons are successful the cleanable spot to commencement utilizing them arsenic soon arsenic I unfastened the book. I emotion that you don’t request to interest astir thing too popping the lawsuit on.

The downside is the cost. The Page Turn Cover volition adhd different $80 to your acquisition aft already needing to upgrade to a Signature Edition, which costs $40 to $50 much than the basal models. The cheapest operation is with the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, but you'll extremity up paying implicit $300, which is however overmuch you'd walk to get the Kobo Libra Colour (my favourite e-reader that isn't a Kindle) with page-turn buttons built successful and a stylus to person it treble arsenic a integer notebook. So portion this Signature/Page Turn Cover combo works well, the terms hurts erstwhile you look astatine the competition. Plus, if you aren’t picky astir your page-turning accessory, the Bluetooth Kindle Click ($35) distant is importantly cheaper and works with older models.

It's hard for maine to accidental you request immoderate of these devices if you're already a Kindle user. The older models are already disappearing from Amazon’s website, though, truthful if you’re successful the marketplace for your archetypal Kindle, I’d inactive urge choosing a Paperwhite, and you mightiness arsenic good take the newest exemplary since the older 1 isn’t immoderate cheaper.

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